Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ERWIN file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ERWIN to another file type
To convert ERWIN data models to another format, you need erwin Data Modeler or other Database software.
Convert a file to ERWIN
To convert other file formats to the "Data Model File" file type, you need software like erwin Data Modeler or a similar tool.
About ERWIN files
The .ERWIN file format is a proprietary data model used to design, document, and manage complex database architectures. These files are exclusively generated by erwin Data Modeler, a leading enterprise tool for logical and physical database design. The primary disadvantage of the .ERWIN format is its closed, vendor-locked ecosystem. These files contain highly complex entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs), metadata, and table constraints that are nearly impossible for standard software or web browsers to read. Sharing these files requires stakeholders to purchase expensive licenses or install specialized viewer software. Because of these limits, users frequently need to convert .ERWIN files to universal formats. The most common conversion targets are PDF or PNG for visual diagram sharing, or SQL, CSV, and XML to extract the data definition language (DDL) and raw database schemas. Due to its proprietary structure, standard online converters usually fail to process it. Only the original software can properly read or export the visual logic and nested data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ERWIN file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ERWIN file to XML, PDF, CSV, JSON, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use erwin Data Modeler or similar software from the "Data Model Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to ERWIN, try erwin Data Modeler or another comparable tool in the "Data Model Storage" category.
The ERWIN Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ERWIN converter.